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jackreade |
03/04/06 |
The current Iranian government, which is much more hard line than the reformists it ousted, is defiant in the face of possible U.N. sanctions aimed at stopping Iran's nuclear ambitions. Iran frightens the West. It is on the verge of forming a powerful Shiite alliance with Iraq and together cornering almost as much oil as Saudi Arabia.
It is a rich enough country to purchase an atomic weapon if the West prevents it from building one. It hates Israel to the point that a nuclear stalemate could be in the offing some time down the road.
And yet for all our apprehension, the Iranians aren't madmen. They are confronting the world with questions that were bound to come back to haunt us. As seen from the Iranian perspective, the leading questions are as follows:
Why should Pakistan have the bomb and we can't?
Why does Israel deserve nuclear power without international sanctions?
What gives foreign powers the right to make demands on a sovereign nation?
Who says that our culture must conform to Western liberal democracies?
The moderates and reformers in Iran cannot stem the tide of public opinion at home, because the regime has successfully turned the tables on the West by making the nuclear issue a matter of nationalism, pride, and sovereignty. They are also turning our own values back on us, since the U.S. would never allow the international community to determine its nuclear future and staunchly forbids international opinion from altering its policies (as witness our refusal to participate in the World Court tribunals over war crimes, our refusal to ratify the Kyoto accord on global warming, and our pre-emptive invasion of Iraq).
The chickens have come home to roost with a vengeance.
There is no way more American violence will improve the situation in the Middle-East; America must face facts. We are far worse off than we were on 910.
Jack
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